Combined sleeve-holder and cuff-button device



L. A. CHANCE.

COMBINED SLEEVE HOLDER AN-D CUFF BUTTON DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17. 1919.

l ,33 4, 34:8 Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

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COMBINED SLEEVE-'lI-IOLDER AND CUFF-BUTTON DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ll'lar. as. men.

Application filed November 17, 15119. Serial No. 338,428.

To all whom it may concern:

lle it known that l, LOUIS A. (hmnon, a citizen. of the United. States, residing at (band. Forlrs, in the county ofGrand Forliis and State of North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Ini n'ovements in Combined Sleeve-Holder and Cuff-Button Devices, of which the following is a speciiication. 1

My invention relates to a combined sleeve holder and cufl' button device. An. object of my invention is to provide a device which will not only serve as a means for carrying the cuff buttons, but will hold the cuffs in proper position around the wrist of the wearer and, when. desired, will hold the cuff up out of the way upon the larger portion. of the arm. An object in particular is to provide a device of this character which may be adjusted according to the size of the wrist of the wearer as well as to accommodate the devicefor cuffs of different size.

The full objects and advantages of my in vention will appear in connection with the detailed description and the novel features embodied in my inventive idea will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,-

Figure 1 a view in side elevation of one form of my device, tioned to hold the sleeve upwardly on the arm. Fi

and attached cuff 2 1s a view of the form of devlce shown in Fig. 1, this view being mostly in section and showing the clip positioned between the portions of a soft cuff. Fig. 3 a view partly in sec tion of a modification. Fig. 4: is an elevational view of another modification.

Referring to the construction shown in Figs. 1 and2, the chaiacters and 12 desig nate complementary members which toget-her constitute a resilient clip having the two free ends juxtaposed, but preferably other when in normal position. The clip, when the two members are assembled, is bow-shaped and preferably of oval form. The two members 10 and 12 are adjustably held together by means of rivets 14 secured to one of the members and which extend through a slot 16 in the other member. The rivets have a frictional fit in the slot sufficient to hold the members in desired adjusted position under ordinary conditions, but upon the application of force in the direction of the lengths responding, but sn'laller,

showing it posiof the two members a sliding movement is produced which enlarges or diminishes the bow according to the direction in which the force applied. (luff buttons 18 are at tached to the free endsof the clip in any suitable manner. A. convenient means of attaching these buttons is shown in Fig. 2, in which the main portion of the button is provided with screw threaded stem 20 which passes through a hole in the end of the clip and screws into a screw threaded hole in the base member EZ'Z. Fig. 3 shows a modification in which one clip member is provided with a hollow end or socket por tion. 26 which. is adapted to receive the corend of the complementary clip member 28. The end of the member 28 has a frictional fit in the socket sufficient to retain it in any desired adjusted position. The clip members shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are prefer: bly formed of flat metal pieces which. are bent into the proper curved form. Fig. lshows another modificationin. which the two clip members 30 and 39. are formed of wire, the cooperating ends of which are bent into loops 34 and 36 respectively. The loop of each member extends around the other member so that adjustment may be made by a sliding movement of the loops in either direction, as desired.

The operation. and advantages of my in vention will be readily understood from the foregoing description. Fig. 1 shows the operation of the device when it is desired to hold the sleeves andattached cuffs out of the way in upward position upon the arm of the wearer. Since the slit in the cuff not held firmly together by the cuff buttons,

as usual, the cult will expand together with the clip when the sleeve is pulled upwardly on thearm and the resiliency of the clip will cause it to grip the arm and hold the end in any desired position somewhat above the wrist. It is obvious that the clip should. have a sufficient curvature so that it will not grip the wrist of the wearer when the cuff is in its normal posltion. By making the clip adjustable at its middle the moss sity of providing different sizes of the clips for different persons is avoided, since by adjusting the two members outwardly the device is expanded and adapted for a larger wrist, and by adjusting the two members inwardly the clip is rendered suitable for smaller wrists. The clip is in this manner 1 tons attached to said --'located at substantially the middle of said ton I device comprising silien'tf clip having free ends which expanded or contracted according to the size of the Wrist of the wearer and although this is the most important function of the ad- Justable construction yet at the same time the clip is adjusted approximately in accordance with the size of the cuffs.

I claim:

1. A combined sleeve holder and cuff button device comprising a resilient clip having free ends which are juxtaposed, cuff butfree ends, and means clip whereby it can be expanded or contracted to vary the width of the clip to accommodate difi'erent sized wrists.

A combined sleeve holder and cufl' buttwo complemental members which together constitute a reare juxtaposed, cufi? buttons attached to said free ends, and means for adjustabtv conuecting said members substantially midway between said "Free ends to vary the width of the clip to accommodate dili'erent silvd wrists.

3. A combined sleeve holder and cuff hutton device comprising two complemental members which together constitute a resilient clip having free ends which are juxtaposed, calf buttons attached to said ends, and means for slidingl v connecting said members substantial]; midway between said free 'ends whereby said clip can be ex panded or rontracted to vary the width of the clip to accomi'nodate dili'erent sized wrists.

In testimonw whereof I hereunto aliix my signature.

LOU IS A. CH A N IQ. 

